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AMD Appzone Player

My first foray into Android emulators.

So after I made the post about the eSfere console, I actually went searching for Android emulators to try out my solution to playing the games on a Windows computer.

I first went with "Jar of Beans" an Android emulator for the Jellybean-version of the operating system, but unforunately it only supports Intel HAXM (Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager) - I have an AMD CPU in my loft computer. I then looked up emulators that support AMD-v (Virtualization) and found that AMD actually created an Android emulator called "AMD Appzone Player", for people that wanted to play Android games on their computer.

The software searches through 1Mobile, Ger Jar, Amazon App Store and Google Play for applications. You can link your Google account to the software (AMD Appzone Player) and download anything through Google Play.

I have both Dead Space (Mobile) and Mass Effect: Infiltrator and installed them both. While Dead Space (Mobile) worked like a charm, Mass Effect: Infiltrator suffers from framerate issues. The only other issues were the touch screen controls; which you can use the mouse pointer as a "finger" and the mouse 1 button as a "touch" on the "screen" of the app. I am not sure if the USB/BT Joystick Center application would work to "program" in keyboard and mouse controls.

I also tried out Dead Trigger, which works until you start shooting and the framerate goes down. I am not sure if this is on account of my ATI GPU when the game is optimized for NVIDIA SoCs.

My one issue with the software itself is you cannot hide the "Suggested Games" bar that appears, no matter what, to the right of the screen.